Draft of a new happy song by Anicca-De co-composed with Uli Brotzler.

A song about being on a journey and not knowing what the road will look like, or who will walk it with you but knowing where you want to arrive and knowing the map to the way home when you are lost, on any journey, (spiritual, physical, creative, emotional/romantic etc) is revealed by finding and listening to your own heart.

Lets Get Lost

This song is still in development. Its the first song I wrote years ago that started my writing journey which lead to me studying music again. This is an acoustic version with Neil (AKA Crusty P) on guitar (who spent every Friday night for over a year sitting and plucking out every tune I brought to him, faithfully representing every note how I imagined, I'm indebted to him for this gift). 

Its being developed in to a large orchestral cross metal piece - like a cross between Evanescence and a little of the orchestral dramatic pop qualities from a celine dion song ;0)hahaha. Yet to add light drums, booming Timpani, bass, keys, and a lead electric guitar that rips wild in places...  haunting back up vocals. etc
Feedback welcome :)

I Wont Leave You Behind (DRAFT guide track)

I Need A Hero (1st draft demo)

ASHES ASHES (Burdekin Snow)[early rough draft for Uni]

1st draft demo. In memory of Karl Broadie https://mushroommusic.com/vale-karl-broadie/ who helped so many songwriters with his generous spirit. I met Karl and asked his advice on a song I wrote about losing a family member to cancer,  "The Big C [Sea]". He agreed to help then I withdrew my email just before I sent it; it was all too raw too soon so I sent him another one instead and said I'd ask his advice later when I was ready to deal with it. Soon after, he passed of the very same cancer (pancreatic), just how I described in my song...."You blinded us with bright things you would say, (you said you’d be alright)
While the big sea (C) was taking you away."  :(  One day, I'll finish that song https://soundcloud.com/feelslikealice/the-big-sea-first-draft. 
But here's another one "JUST ONE MORE TIME",  for anyone who's lost a lover - my thoughts and love goes to you and especially to Karl's girlfriend Rachel. 

Just One More Time 

moving softly side by side
we floated on our lovers high
summer framed your perfect face
on a bed of grass is where we'd lay
we had to say our first good bye 
the kiss was long, and I would like
to lay with you, just one more time

we grew wings from that first high
the time we loved began to fly
To my heartbeat you would sing
I married you without a ring
and even if we'd had a fight
the kiss was long and I would like
to lay with you, just one more time 

time catches butterflies
and all the clouds that cross the sky
I wish I could command it like 
all the songs we'd sing and write
[butterflies butterflies.....]

time was our kaleidoscope 
spinning changing always hope
colours changed then you transformed
one quick turn then you were gone
gone with time and gone with life
the kiss was short and I would like
to lay with you, just one more time 
to lay with you, to lay with you, just one more time

Anecha-De (2016)

JUST ONE MORE TIME - 1st draft demo

CRAZY Tea Party song - theme song for the Swinging Tea Party Chapter of Feels Like Alice written by yours truly, Ä-nē-cha Dē. This is the first demo to be submitted as a University of Southern Queensland songwriting assignment.
[No rights given to use photo... will be replaced soon]. 
Hopefully with a little time and love this song will get even a little crazier. ;)

VERSE 1 (What you see now)
What you see when you look at me?
Limousine? Diamond Ring?
Come and see what you haven't seen
I'll show you what I mean 

PRE-CHORUS (What I was in the past&reasons to party)
Lets ride the time machine. I've had...
CHORUS
1 decade of confusion
2 decades of dark
3 loads of black washing 
and an even darker heart
4 wheels that I spin
5 crashes in my car
600 valium to sink   to float my drowning heart
and I left it all behind now [ride the time machine] let the tea party start!!!![kazoo instrumental riff] 

VERSE 2 (Where I'm going next)
Alice fell in to Wonderland
Had her cake and some tea
watch me slay the Jabberwocky
From your front row seat

PRE-CHORUS 
Lets ride the time machine. I've had...
CHORUS
1 decade of confusion
2 decades of dark
3 loads of black washing 
and an even darker heart
4 wheels that I spin
5 crashes in my car
600 valium to sink to float my drowning heart
and I left it all behind now [ride the time machine] let the tea party start!!!![kazoo instrumental riff] 

BRIDGE (Finally in the present)
Hel-lo, Hel-lo, Hello happy high
Lets all have a tea party
I have, arrived
Spin spin that tick tock, its “now o'clock”
Drink from the teapot 
while its still hot
Hel-lo, Hel-lo, Hello happy high
you can pat my Cheshire cat
she doesn't mind
Mad Hatter's high again, the rabbit is in time
Welcome to my tea party
Hello happy high! [kazoo instrumental riff]

PRE-CHORUS 
lets ride the time machine. I've had...
CHORUS
1 decade of confusion
2 decades of dark
3 loads of black washing 
and an even darker heart
[kazoo]
[kazoo]
600 valium to sink to float my drowning heart
and I left it all behind now [ride the time machine] let the tea party start!!!![kazoo instrumental riff]

TEA PARTY (TIME MACHINE) 1st DEMO

Unmixed Draft Demo track.

CRAZY Tea Party song - theme song for the Swinging Tea Party Chapter of Feels Like Alice written by yours truly, Ä-nē-cha Dē. This is the first demo to be submitted as a University of Southern Queensland songwriting assignment.
[No rights given to use photo... will be replaced soon]. 
Hopefully with a little time and love this song will get even a little crazier. ;)

VERSE 1 (What you see now)
What you see when you look at me?
Limousine? Diamond Ring?
Come and see what you haven't seen
I'll show you what I mean 

PRE-CHORUS (What I was in the past&reasons to party)
Lets ride the time machine. I've had...
CHORUS
1 decade of confusion
2 decades of dark
3 loads of black washing 
and an even darker heart
4 wheels that I spin
5 crashes in my car
600 valium to sink   to float my drowning heart
and I left it all behind now [ride the time machine] let the tea party start!!!![kazoo instrumental riff] 

VERSE 2 (Where I'm going next)
Alice fell in to Wonderland
Had her cake and some tea
watch me slay the Jabberwocky
From your front row seat

PRE-CHORUS 
Lets ride the time machine. I've had...
CHORUS
1 decade of confusion
2 decades of dark
3 loads of black washing 
and an even darker heart
4 wheels that I spin
5 crashes in my car
600 valium to sink to float my drowning heart
and I left it all behind now [ride the time machine] let the tea party start!!!![kazoo instrumental riff] 

BRIDGE (Finally in the present)
Hel-lo, Hel-lo, Hello happy high
Lets all have a tea party
I have, arrived
Spin spin that tick tock, its “now o'clock”
Drink from the teapot 
while its still hot
Hel-lo, Hel-lo, Hello happy high
you can pat my Cheshire cat
she doesn't mind
Mad Hatter's high again, the rabbit is in time
Welcome to my tea party
Hello happy high! [kazoo instrumental riff]

PRE-CHORUS 
lets ride the time machine. I've had...
CHORUS
1 decade of confusion
2 decades of dark
3 loads of black washing 
and an even darker heart
[kazoo]
[kazoo]
600 valium to sink to float my drowning heart
and I left it all behind now [ride the time machine] let the tea party start!!!![kazoo instrumental riff]

TEA PARTY (TIME MACHINE) - Final Unmixed Draft Demo

draft backing track - see celtic acoustic version for vocal melody line and altered chorus chords PLUS imagine there is also a rap in the bridge

THE ALCHEMIST - draft backing track no vox for collaborators

DEMO draft.
VERSE 1
Prince Philip didn't make the Queen a Queen
She was royalty, b'fore she married, him
cant lose her title even if the Prince, 
doesn't love the Queen just like she needs

CHORUS
I'll, always be the Queen this land, 
(even if you don't love me)
just, try to crash my castles to the ground
(turn my whole world against me)
Try to steal my jewels and all strength that you resent 
But I will always be the Queen of this land 

VERSE 2
I want a King within a castle of consent
roam these fields for free, and do not pay me rent
but i'll evict you from my sacred land
if you stretch the lines and hide your hand 

CHORUS
I'll, always be the Queen this land, 
(even if you don't love me)
just, try to crash my castles to the ground
(turn my whole world against me)
Try to steal my jewels and all strength that you resent 
But I will always be the Queen of this land 

BRIDGE
“The King who gets to stay is the one who locks the gate”
I hear the key that turns in my well oiled silent gate
and the sound of marching boots that stop when the guards stand to wait
their uniforms are pressed so firm their bodies can't escape
and the sound of a silent love so deep that a breath, is all he takes
“but if i have to tell you this, you’re, not worth, the wait”

FINAL CHORUS
I'll, always be the Queen this land, 
(even if you don't love me)
just, try to crash my castles to the ground
(turn my whole world against me)
Try to steal my jewels and all strength that you resent 
But I will always be the Queen of this land 
I will always be the Queen of this land
I will always be the Queen of this land

Always the Queen

*Special thanks to Andrew Crossley (bass and guitar)and Ewyn Lawson-Brown (Cello and Melodica) for playing on this track. 
LYRICS
VERSE 1 (What you see now)
What you see when you look at me?
Limousine? Diamond Ring?
I got things that you haven't seen
I'll show you what I mean 

PRE-CHORUS (What I was in the past)
Lets ride the time machine. I've had...
CHORUS
1 decade of confusion
2 decades of dark
3 loads of black washing 
and an even darker heart
4 wheels that I spin
5 crashes in my car
600 valium to sink  to float my drowning heart
and I left it all behind now [ride the time machine] let the tea party start!!!![kazoo instrumental riff] 

VERSE 2 (Where I'm going in the future)
Alice fell in to Wonderland
Had her cake and some tea
watch me slay the Jabberwocky
From your front row seat

PRE-CHORUS (What I was in the past)
Lets ride the time machine. I've had...
CHORUS
1 decade of confusion
2 decades of dark
3 loads of black washing 
and an even darker heart
4 wheels that I spin
5 crashes in my car
600 valium to sink to float my drowning heart
and I left it all behind now [ride the time machine] 
let the tea party start!!!![kazoo instrumental riff] 

BRIDGE (Finally in the present)
Hel-lo, Hel-lo, Hello happy high
Lets all have a tea party
I have, arrived
Spin spin that tick tock, its “now o'clock”
Drink from the teapot 
while its still hot
Hel-lo, Hel-lo, Hello happy high
you can pat my Cheshire cat
she doesn't mind
Mad Hatter's high again, the rabbit is in time
Welcome to my tea party
Hello happy high! [kazoo instrumental riff]

PRE-CHORUS (What I was in the past)
lets ride the time machine. I've had...
CHORUS
1 decade of confusion
2 decades of dark
3 loads of black washing 
and an even darker heart
[kazoo]
[kazoo]
600 valium to sink to float my drowning heart
and I left it all behind now [ride the time machine] 
let the tea party start!!!![kazoo instrumental riff]

Lost in Musical Wonderland

Tea Party (Time Machine)

DEMO draft.
VERSE 1
Prince Philip didn't make the Queen a Queen
She was royalty, b'fore she married, him
cant lose her title even if the Prince, 
doesn't love the Queen just like she needs

CHORUS
I'll, always be the Queen this land, 
(even if you don't love me)
just, try to crash my castles to the ground
(turn my whole world against me)
Try to steal my jewels and all strength that you resent 
I'll always be the Queen, I, rule, this land

VERSE 2
I want a King within a castle of consent
roam these fields for free, and do not pay me rent
but i'll evict you from my sacred land
if you stretch the lines and hide your hand

CHORUS
I'll, always be the Queen this land, 
(even if you don't love me)
just, try to crash my castles to the ground
(turn my whole world against me)
Try to steal my jewels and all strength that you resent 
I'll always be the Queen, I, rule, this land

BRIDGE
“The King who gets to stay is the one who locks the gate”
I hear the key that turns in my well oiled silent gate
and the sound of marching boots that stop when the guards stand to wait
their uniforms are pressed so firm their bodies can't escape
and the sound of a silent love so deep that a breath, is all he takes
“but if i have to tell you this, you’re, not worth, the wait”

FINAL CHORUS
I'll, always be the Queen this land, 
(even if you don't love me)
just, try to crash my castles to the ground
(turn my whole world against me)
Try to steal my jewels and all strength that you resent 
I'll always be the Queen, I, rule, this land

The Queen -Elec - Pop Vsn - New CHORUS

Singer-Songwriter-Composer - Ä-nē-cha (Anecha De)

Ä-nē-cha was first introduced to music by her musician father who was deep in to electronic music such as Tangerine Dream and Mike Oldfield. He departed at age three and her memory of this time is juxtaposed to the sound of Gershon Kingsley's Popcorn. 

Ä-nē-cha continued to grow up in a religion which forbid listening to music (other than hymns) with no music player. Inspired by a family member who's sole harmonies sung loud and live over 500 church singers and then introduced to Fleetwood Mac in the late 70's via a family member she began a lifelong love of singing. Then thanks to the help of a neighbour in the 80's who snuck a record player in to her room, started listening to stacks of EP's from the neighbours dukebox machine business when they were considered expired and discarded. 

"My best memories of my dad were of him singing Johny Cash on stage. I recall watching band practice just before he left home and lived with that deep longing to touch the equipment for all of my life. Yet I lived in a silent music-less home and we had no money for piano lessons to even play hymns. So it felt like music was always, just out of my reach. As a teen I was asked to enter the country music scene but was just too shy and inhibited back then. I wanted to but couldn't play guitar and just couldn't make the leap in my mind."

Ä-nē-cha first studied classical music for 5 years during secondary school but found it entirely dissatisfying playing a clarinet when all she wanted to do was sing, "and it felt like too much focus on the theory and not enough on the heart and modern expression which I longed".  

"I moved to Melbourne in 2003 with the intention of studying acting further and won best female actress awards in 2 eisteddfods, but I ended up studying millinery and meeting many musicians who urged me to sing and write music, resulting in me commencing my formal songwriting journey instead(although I had written for all of the years prior, even in the silence, but never shared my work). 

It's really hard to say who my influences are because there are so many. When I left home I followed an insatiable urge to devour as much music and genres as I could to make up for the lack of music in my childhood. It became like a competition with myself to see how wide my appreciation could span. Probably Fleetwood Mac has had the greatest influence and then Jewel and other like singer-songwriters. I grew up singing hymns but I'm now influenced a lot by jazz and jazz-blues and I'm currently writing music for a neo-cabaret swing set. Then electronic music is still deep in my psyche so I guess my music naturally reflects all those electronic bands I love too, like Enigma, Delirium, Mike Oldfield, Dead Can Dance, Deep Forest etc plus dance music (Skitz, Tiesto & Avicii), world music etc."

Ä-nē-cha has completed a Diploma of Music (Voice) and is currently studying a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Music) online so she can remain in Cairns where she currently resides. 

"Because my composing crosses multiple genres I'm currently developing my music electronically and will find people to play with me along the way. 

I arrived on the band/brand name "Feels Like Alice" because I feel like Alice lost in musical wonderland. Feels Like Alice is an online and real life project like a virtual and real space I invite other musicians in to, to collaborate, co-write and perform live with in different "Chapters" of the Feels Like Alice story. 

I'm resisting committing to any one genre yet because when you've had them taken away you appreciate them all so much.  I hope you come and enjoy the journey with me."

Anecha Anecha.... everything is changing, constantly changing. Metta. x

Follow the Feels Like Alice band chapters at: https://www.facebook.com/FeelsLikeAlice/timeline






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